Surrender

A young professor was arrested for speeding in the outskirt of a northern California town. The cop took his name and number, and several days later he received notice that he had been fined thirty dollars, with the alternative of spending thirty days in jail. He wrote back to the chief of police saying he wanted a vacation to organize some notes for a treatise and that the jail term seemed just the thing. They could expect him on Monday. A special delivery came whizzing back from the clerk of the court, saying his fine was cut to fifteen dollars. The professor said that he'd stick to the original plan. They township wrote saying they would take five. He still refused. They wrote and pardoned him. He was not to come to jail, please